international affairs, history, politics

A trip down memory lane

Remember how, in March, Bassem “The Jon Stewart of Egypt” Youssef was hauled in for questioning by the Egyptian government because he’d made fun of President Morsi? And remember how everybody rightly took that as a sign that the democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood government was no longer operating in a democratic manner, and that this was going to be a real problem for Egyptian liberal democracy moving forward? And remember how happy many Egyptian “liberals” were when the army overthrew Morsi, because that was somehow going to put Egypt back on the path to freedom and ponies and such like?